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Posted: 04 Feb 2014 05:44 PM PST

Share prices on Bursa Malaysia rebounded from yesterday's losses to open firmer across-the-board in the early trading today,
lifted by renewed buying interest following positive overnight performance on Wall Street.

At 9.10am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) stood at 1,784.36, up 5.53 points from yesterday's settlement at 1,778.83.

The benchmark index opened 6.01 points higher at 1,784.84, with demand mostly seen in index-linked counters.

Gains in Petronas Gas lifted the composite index by 1.15 points, with oil and gas share gaining 32 sen or 1.4 per cent to RM23.14.

Market breadth was positive as gainers trounced losers 149 to 36, with 101 counters unchanged, 1,307 untraded and 17 others suspended.

Turnover stood at 108.936 million shares worth RM46.063 million.

HwangDBS Vickers Research said a technical rebound could be on the cards for the Malaysian bourse today.

"The benchmark FBM KLCI, after hitting a low of 1,769.80 yesterday, will probably extend its recovery pattern by climbing above the immediate resistance line of 1,780 ahead.

"This follows an overnight bounce-up on Wall Street," the research house said in a note today.

Key US stock bellwethers rose between 0.5 per cent and 0.9 per cent from their oversold territories after slumping as much as 4.3-7.3 per cent from their recent highs, it added.

On the scoreboard, the Finance Index rose 39.18 points to 16,327.69, the Industrial Index increased 10.51 points to 3,041.88 and the Plantation Index gained 8.73 points to 8,315.1.

The FBM Emas Index improved 34.64 points to 12,326.83, the FBMT100 Index rose 33.2 points to 12,041.99, the FBM 70 garnered 21.48 points to 13,605.47 and the FBM Ace rose 25.46 points to 5,897.81 points.

Among actives, Minetech Resources rose two sen to 23.5 sen, IRIS Corp added 1.5 sen to 41 sen and Astral Supreme inched up half-a-sen to 20 sen.

As for heavyweights, Maybank was up two sen to RM9.58, TNB soared six sen to RM11.34, while both CIMB and Sime Darby were flat at RM6.85 and RM8.87, respectively.

Axiata Group, however, shed one sen to RM6.54.-- Bernama

Gold down 72 sen

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 05:45 PM PST

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The physical price of gold as at 9.30am stood at RM129.42 per gramme, down 72 sen from RM130.14 at 5pm yesterday.-- Bernama

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Dreams kept castaway going - New Zealand Herald

Posted: 04 Feb 2014 08:33 AM PST

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Obama defends record on marriage - Politico

Posted: 03 Feb 2014 06:38 PM PST

President Barack Obama is defending his record on promoting strong families in the African-American community, rejecting suggestions during an interview released Monday that he hasn't done enough as president to tout the benefits of marriage.

"We address it explicitly all the time," Obama told Fox News's Bill O'Reilly in an exchange recorded before Sunday's Super Bowl.

In response to O'Reilly's statement that Obama and first lady Michelle Obama were not engaged in a campaign to reduce out-of-wedlock births among black Americans, the president insisted that such messages are part of his rhetoric even if the media doesn't pick up on them.

"I will send you at least 10 speeches I have made since I have been president, talking about the importance of men taking responsibility for their children, talking about the importance of young people delaying gratification. talking about the importance of when it comes to child rearing, paying child support, spending time with your kids, reading with them," Obama said. "So, whether it's getting publicity or not is a whole different question."

The president did not cite speeches where he had directly promoted marriage, but he insisted that he done so.

O'Reilly cited statistics showing that 72 percent of African-American children are born out of wedlock, a factor often leading to poverty, but Obama sought to broaden out the conversation to other racial groups.

"What's interesting when you look at what's going on right now, you are starting to see in a lot of white working-class homes similar problems when men can't find good work, when the economy is shutting ladders of opportunity off from people, whether they are black, white, Hispanic, it doesn't matter, that puts pressure as well on the home," the president said.

"So, you have got an interaction between an economy that isn't generating enough good jobs for folks who traditionally could get blue collar jobs even if they didn't have a higher education and some legitimate social concerns that compound the problem. And, so, we want to hit both."

Obama said the White House is gathering "philanthropists and business people, city by city" to address both social and economic aspects of the issue.

The interview, recorded after a live interview before Sunday's Super Bowl, aired Monday on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor."

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